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In Multnomah County, older adults struggle with housing instability
The National Alliance to End Homelessness found that nearly one in four people experiencing homelessness were over the age of 55, based on data from 2023′s Point-in-Time count.
Portland LGBTQ+ seniors reflect on changes they’ve seen in their community
This Meals on Wheels lunch for seniors in Northeast Portland has a unique flavor: Nearly everyone here is gay, lesbian, or transgender. We talk to them about the changes they've seen over their lifetimes.
Would you leave grandma with a companion robot? Care bots and robot pets find favor in Pacific NW
Artificial intelligence is all the rage, and now it’s helping some Pacific Northwest seniors live in their own homes for longer. Twenty grandmas and grandpas on the Washington coast joined a pilot project that is trialing how AI-driven companion robots could reduce loneliness and social isolation among seniors — especially those living alone.
With pandemic especially challenging to seniors with Alzheimer’s, one Portland group helps people connect by walking
As we reach two full years of living in a pandemic, an act as simple as a walk outside is reconnecting some of the people hit hardest by COVID-19 isolation.
Seniors in Portland apartment complex want to escape Legionnaires’ disease. But there’s nowhere else to go
Caught between an affordable housing crisis and a public health one, seniors say they are stuck at Rosemont Court - now home to one of the largest and longest-lasting Legionnaires' outbreaks in Multnomah County history.
COVID-19 good news: 1st doses of vaccine have reached almost all Oregonians in long-term care
Oregon may have quietly reached a monumental milestone last week in the fight against COVID-19.
1 dead, 4 hospitalized in North Portland senior housing complex Legionnaires’ disease outbreak
More than 100 residents of a North Portland senior housing complex were evacuated from their homes Tuesday after a bacterial pneumonia outbreak.
Finding Meaning In Retirement: A Softball Story
Leon Speroff's softball career began more than a decade ago when he was 71. Now he and his team are headed to Utah to compete for a gold medal.
Seniors Protest Trans-Pacific Partnership
Seniors from Portland and about 20 other cities across the nation, are protesting the Trans-Pacific Partnership Tuesday.